Food to Die For: Over 50 Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places (A Spooky Paranormal Cookbook with Creepy Meals, Eerie Destinations, and Spine-Tingling Ghost Tales)
About this product
Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns, giving you stories and a recipe from each place. Whether you're in the mood for Lizzie Borden's meatloaf or want to serve up spooky prison stories along with sugar cookies from Alcatraz, Food to Die For is your guide to ghoulish gastronomy. One of America's favorite ghost hunters, Amy Bruni takes you to mysterious hotels, eerie ghost towns, and possessed pubs in this delightfully sinister collection of stories and recipes. Each of the nearly 60 locations in Food to Die For includes:Vintage photographs and charmingly creepy stories rooted in history
A noteworthy recipe associated with the people or place
Full-color, captivating, and hauntingly styled food photos to inspire a killer kitchen experience
Enjoy creepy recipes like:Southern Fried Chicken from the Missouri State Penitentiary
Sheboygan Asylum Caesar Salad
Cornbread inspired by the Villisca Axe Murder House
Absinthe Frappé from the Old Absinthe House
Ernest Hemingway's Bloody Mary from Hemingway Home & Museum
Vegetable Soup from Waverly Hills Sanatorium
This terrifyingly tasty cookbook will bewitch anyone who:Has a taste for the paranormal and a hunger to try new foods
Loves history, travel, and culinary curiosities
Enjoys entertaining guests in unique and memorable ways
Would get goosebumps making a recipe written 300 years ago
History buffs, thrill-seekers, and foodies will all get shivers seeing the past come to life with every enchanted recipe and delicious tale from Food to Die For. Read more
Editor's Take
Amazon-style reader feedback and book-review sites describe this as a fun, spooky cookbook that blends recipes with haunted-location stories. Reviewers on Goodreads are mostly positive, with multiple five-star reactions praising the mix of paranormal lore, history, and usable recipes, though a few readers seem more interested in the ghost stories than the cooking itself.
A Halloween-focused review blog calls it a unique and enjoyable cookbook, noting that Amy Bruni’s paranormal angle makes it stand out from standard recipe books. StoryGraph snippets also suggest mixed-to-positive reactions, including some readers who found it only “OK,” but the overall sentiment skews favorable.
On YouTube, results show real videos directly about the book, including an author/book feature and a cooking demo using a recipe from the cookbook. Those videos suggest the product has enough interest to attract both paranormal and food-focused coverage.
- Amazon reviewers say the book is an appealing mix of haunted history and recipes.
- Goodreads readers frequently praise the creativity and atmosphere.
- Review blogs describe it as a distinctive spooky-season cookbook.
- YouTube results include actual review/demo videos about the title.
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Specifications
| Publisher | Harper Celebrate |
| Publication date | July 30, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1400245591 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1400245598 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.3 x 0.94 x 10.26 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,155 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Meat Cooking #1 in Halloween Cooking #1 in Lifestyle & Event Photography |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,135) |
